Founder of Irish co-operative movement to be commemorated

A FOUNDER of the Irish Co-operative Movement will be honoured at his birthplace in Churchtown, Co Cork, on Saturday.

Founder of Irish co-operative movement to be commemorated

A plaque will be unveiled at Mount Corbett House, where Robert Anderson was born in 1860.

He was chosen by Horace Plunkett in 1889 to be Ireland’s first co-op organiser.

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